Trump expects to be arrested Tuesday as DA eyes charges

Donald Trump said in a social media post that he expected to be arrested on Tuesday, as was a New York prosecutor. Allegations of peeping In the case of an investigation into payments to women who alleged sexual encounters with the former president.

Trump said in a post on his Truth social network earlier Saturday that “illegal leaks” from the Manhattan district attorney’s office showed that “by far and away the leading Republican candidate and former president of the United States of America.” will be exposed. Saturday.”

Trump’s lawyer, Susan Knuckles, explained in a text to CBS News on Saturday that this was speculation by the former president.

“As President Trump says, his post is based on media reports. Because this is a political prosecution, the District Attorney’s Office is practicing leaking everything to the press rather than talking to President Trump’s lawyers.” is a common case.”

Trump did not provide any details on social media about how he knew about the expected arrest. In his posting, he repeated allegations that the Democrats who lost the 2020 presidential election to Biden were robbed and urged his followers to “Protest, take back our nation!”

Law enforcement officials in New York are preparing for the possibility that Trump could be indicted.

No time frame has been publicly announced for the grand jury’s secret work in the case, including any possible vote on whether to indict the former president.

Manhattan prosecutors are investigating Trump’s alleged $130,000 “hush money” payment to an adult film star. Stormy Daniels In 2016 Recently invited The former president to testify in the investigation, a step that usually comes before an indictment in New York.

Trump says he did nothing wrong and has cast the investigation by a Democratic prosecutor as a “witch hunt” bent on sabotaging the Republican’s 2024 presidential campaign.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office is apparently looking into whether any state laws were broken in connection with the payments or the way Trump’s company manipulated former attorney Michael Cohen to keep the women’s allegations quiet. Paid for work.